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Jess and Joe from our Communications team kick The Grade off with a wonderful guest: NECSN Interim NYS Director Andrea Rogers. Andrea sits down with the team to discuss what last week's New York State budget deal means for charter schools. Listen now!

The New York Twenty: Real Charter Champions profiles the everyday people who are the champions to their children: parents and grandparents who make the critical choice to send their kids to charter schools. Over the next several weeks we will be sharing the real stories of charter parents around New York State. Today, get to know Albany charter parent Latoya Taitt.

Yesterday NECSN CEO Kyle Rosenkrans penned an open letter to charter opponents who have intensified their attacks on schools and children. This morning they tried spinning Kyle's words and twisting the facts. Kyle responds...

The New York State budget is being finalized. While we wait for final bill language, the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle looked at the Assembly's proposal and the damage it would do to charter schools.

The New York Twenty: Real Charter Champions profiles the everyday people who are the champions to their children: parents and grandparents who make the critical choice to send their kids to charter schools. Over the next several weeks we will be sharing the real stories of charter parents around New York State. Today, get to know Elmira charter parent Kay Mighty-Brown.

No matter what kind of anti-charter school rhetoric UFT leaders choose to unleash, and no matter how many statistics they try to spin, there is one thing that they cannot ignore: the overwhelming parent demand for charter schools.